Lesson video

Hi, I'm Rebecca, your computing teacher.

For this lesson, you're going to need some presentation software like Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint.

If you don't have access to those, then you can just use a pen and paper for your slides.

That's absolutely fine.

You're also going to need pen and paper to make any notes that you need to.

Once you've moved any distractions out of the way as well, we can begin.

In this lesson, you will learn how to refine online searches, use presentation tools effectively, consider accessibility, and design a presentation.

In this lesson and lesson six, you will be making a presentation on how to be respectful online.

Before you start, we will cover some aspects of design that you will need to think about.

And that is copyright, accessibility, and layout.

It is very easy to find images online.

A respectful user we'll check the copyright permissions before using images in their work.

And I'm going to show you how to do this now.

A quick disclaimer before we go and do our Google search.

So please ask a parent or care for permission before searching the internet.

Adult supervision is advised.

Oak National Academy are not responsible for third party content.

A popular place to look for images is on Google.

So I'm going to look for some puppies and I want to click on the images tab there.

And now I've got lots of knots of pictures of puppies, but what you might not think is that a lot of these images on here are actually copyright, which means you're not allowed to use them in your own work.

And you're certainly not allowed to use them and publish them online.

So it's very, very careful that you look at the licencing of these images.

Now Google has its own tool.

So if you go to tools, and you go to usage rights, and it allows you to filter those images based on their licence.

And if the safest one to use it, this top one here labelled for reuse with modification.

Cause that means that those images can most likely be used pretty much anywhere.

So if I look at the puppies now, see I've got different images that come up.

And then the other one is labelled for non-commercial reuse with modification.

This is probably a typical one that you would select for your schoolwork because you're not going to publish it, you're not going to sell it.

So I think it's absolutely fine to use that one in that situation.

But that one, there is probably the safer option.

So if you decided that you wanted this picture of this puppy, you could then copy it and use it in your work.

It does always come with it is the disclaimer though at the bottom images may be subject to copyright because the algorithm that Google uses might not always be accurate.

So it's always important to check your sources.

If you're worried and you want to use something a little bit safer, then there's a website called Pixabay.

And there's quite a lot of these copyright free images out there.

Pixabay is the one that I usually use.

And on here, you can search for things and everything on here is copyright free for commercial use.

Now, it always has a sponsor bit at the top, these are the ones that you have to pay for, but the ones below are the free ones that you can use.

So you can see I've still got lots of nice pictures of puppies, but then when I click on them, you'll notice that you've got the actual licence, they're free for commercial use, no attribution required.

And that means it's pretty safe for me to use that in my work, even if it's published, and even if I want to sell the project as well.

So, there's some options for you finding some copyright free images.

As well as using copyright free images, you need to make sure that the slides that you create are accessible to as many users as possible.

And these are just three key tips for making sure that your slides are accessible.

The first one is using sans serif fonts.

And that just means without the kicks.

So if you look at that first font where it says a serif font, you'll notice that on that phone, if you just look very closely, there's little cakes on the side of the edges of each of the letters and you can see them, whereas the one underneath it, a sans serif font, it doesn't have any of those kicks, there's actual little bits.

And that just makes it much clearer and easier for people to read it on a screen.

The second one, is having contrast in colours with the background and the foreground.

So, you can have a dark background with a very light font or a very light background and a very dark font.

So it has to be contrasting.

And this means that users that are visually impaired, should be able to see it that little bit easier if you've got that high contrast.

And then the final one is using pastel shades for backgrounds.

Cause this just can make it a little bit easier for people with dyslexia to be able to read your screen.

And if you look on there, if you go to in-most slideshow packages, you can select the colour.

And there's usually a colour section where it's just sort of pastel backgrounds and that's what's highlighted there on the screen.

Those are the pastel colours that you could use.

Also consider your layout.

So if you take a look at these two options here, you've got a very small image with lots and lots of text.

And then you've got a very large image just with a little bit of text.

Now, if you're doing a presentation where you do lots of talking and you want to make quite a big impact, sometimes having a large image can have a much bigger impact than having loads and loads of text on the screen.

Keep your text quite minimal, and keep your font quite large as well.

So if you think about the presentations that I use, I tend to use a little bit of text just on one side of the screen and it's in a very large font.

So it's not overwhelming the person that is looking at the slides.

Another thing about layout is having tonnes of images.

It's quite often with young learners to just go and get tonnes and tonnes of images and place them on the screen like that.

This can look really, really confusing sometimes to somebody looking at your presentation and actually one large image on its own, makes a much bigger impact than having tonnes and tonnes of images.

So try not to go too overwhelmed with lots and lots of pictures, try and pick a really good one and just sticking to one.

Two at the most, but really there isn't.

There aren't really that many situations where you would need two images.

One image is usually enough.

So what we'll do is I'm going to show you how to use Google Slides.

Now you can use Google Slides with a free Gmail address, and that will automatically give you access to Google Slides.

And if you were going to use that, then you would need to get your parent and carer to set that up for you so that you can use it.

If your school has an account that you can use at home, then you might be able to access that either a Microsoft PowerPoint or a Google account as well.

So this is your demonstration Google Slides.

Most presentation software, quite similar.

So you should be able to adapt these skills to whichever package you've got.

And remember, you don't have to use presentation software, you can just use pen and paper if you want to.

So here's the demo.

If you do have your own Google drive account, then you can find slides by going to new and then clicking on at slides.

And this will give you your slideshow software.

And when you first open, you can see just a blank title slide there, where you can type in your title and your subtitle.

So you can just get started with a blank one if you want to, or you can choose different template options which are here.

So there's some nice ones for you to choose from, and you can even import the themes as well.

So if you wanted to choose that one, for example, then you could, and everything changes.

I don't like that one at all though, I think I'm going to choose this one.

And so then what I can do is I can type in my title.

So being whoops, that's not how you spell being, being respectful online by Rebecca Franks.

And then that just gives me my slide title.

And then if I want to get a new slide, then I go over here and if I can just press plus, and it will try and guess what kind of layout I want, or I can click on that little drop down arrow there, and it gives me lots of layout options to choose from.

So if it wanted to have a picture on the left and some text on the right, then I could click on this one and I could paste my picture here, and I put some texts here.

And you just experiment, sometimes it's nice to just have a big piece of text, for example, like these options here.

So choose which option you want.

You can change the background colour if you don't like it, by going to background and choosing the different colours.

So remember those pastel shades, you can choose them from here.

And again, if you don't like any themes, you can just stick with the blank one at the start and just make up your own theme, make it your own colours, which is something you might like to do as well.

You've also got adding images, you can do that here.

So you can insert images, so you can upload them from your computer if you've got them or you can search the web as well.

That's another way of finding copyright free images 'cause actually they're all copyright free on this link here.

If you want to add a new text box, then you can just choose textbooks and add an extra one on if you're not happy with the layout, that's there.

And then things like changing the colour of the fonts and all those types of things.

Then the menu doesn't pop up all the time, but if you're inside a text box, then you get the menu options for all of the different fonts and colours and sizes and all of those things.

So that's pretty much it.

The other thing that you might like to do is to add slide animations.

So, if I wanted to make my title come in on an animation, then I could go to view and I could go to motion.

And if I select this box, I'm going to make them both come at the same time I think.

Set both them, add animation, and it's going to the moment.

It's fading in on click, you can have a appear or lots of different options there.

So fly in from left on click and you can make it fast or slow.

And then the next one, this one does it with previous.

So that means that it will do it together.

And again, I could have fly in.

I can't remember what I did.

Oh yeah, fly in from left and then fast.

And then if I want to see what that looks like, I can just press play, and it shows me what it looks like.

So I just have to click and then it appear well, I think that's because I had it set to fast.

It's done, it's super fast, doesn't it? I don't like lots and lots of animations.

I tried to keep my animations as minimal as possible because sometimes it can be quite confusing having lots of texts going from all sorts of directions.

So it's really good advice to just keep those animations quite simple and just use them when they really, really necessary.

So that was just a basic introduction to Google Slides.

What I'd like you to do now then is design your presentation.

Your presentation should incorporate everything you have learned in this unit about being respectful online.

Before you create your presentation, you need to think about what will happen on each slide? Take a piece of paper and fold it into six sections.

Use the creases as guides for each slide in your presentation.

If you are working with another classmate on your design, then you might want to do this electronically with a shared document.

And you can do that if you've got access to Google Slides, there is a share button on there, and you can click on that and you can share the document with a friend by typing in their email address.

But please only do that if you've got the permission of both parents and carers before you get started.

Remember to keep your slides simple and not overload them with too much detail.

That's really, really important.

So pause the video to complete your task.

I want you to design your presentation, using your folded piece of paper, design your presentation on being respectful online, pause the video and come back when you done.

That's fantastic.

I hope you're really proud of your design work and that you'll be raring to go for lesson six, where you create your own presentation.

If you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak 'cause we'd really love to see those designs.

See you again soon.